It was enjoyable, and a great way to bring people together and to showcase things...but I am unconvinced that it has much to do with democracy. It would be interesting to know how many people went who had not been asked by somebody involved in one of the projects, friends neighbours and family of people already involved...so how many people just off the street? I also wonder if the aap etc had saved the money involved in printing hall hire etc, and the organisations had all saved their printing and display costs if we would have had enough money to go round all the projects anyway. PLEASE prove me wrong...because there are many good things about the event. Andy Plant